Intrepid should be careful on taking everyone's feedback and here is why

Intrepid is mostly doing it right so I don't have any problems either.

You start from telling the community "This is what we as the planners and developers want, here are our goals and here are the reasons". This is Steven's project, after all, it's not 'a thing that he has to do the way some stakeholders want'.

Then you take feedback on how much to tweak it, or to figure out if a massive amount of your core audience dislikes something that you took for granted but aren't strongly committed to as a design goal/core.

Character appearances are unlikely to be a strongly committed design goal/core.